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APPARATUS POR MIXING ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH NATURAL GAS.

Patented Oct. I2, 1886.

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IINrTEn STATES PATENT OEETCE.

VILLIAM SNEE, OF VES'I ELIZABETH, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF TO JOIIN IiI. SNEE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR MIXING ATMOSPHERIC AIR WITH NATURAL GAS.

SPECIFICATION formingy part of Letters Patent No. 350,849, dated October 12, 1886.

Application filed March 20, 1886. Serial No. 105.920. (No mo(.el.l

To all v07mm t may concern: valves, II, for permitting the gas to escape Be it known that I, VILL'I'AM SNEE, a eitiwhen it exceeds a certain pressure, so as to zen of the United States, and a resident of prevent the main from bursting. A pipe, I, Test Elizabeth, in the county of Allegheny may also be connected with the piouth F, andf andState ofPennsylvania, have invented cerprovided with a valve for regulating the 55 tain new and useful Improvements in Devices amount of air admitted into the main. for Mixing Atmospheric Air with Natural Upon one side of the valve Bin the pipe Gas; and I do hereby declare that the follow- A the pressure is always greater than upon ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the other side, so that the gas which passes the invention, which will enable others skilled through the' injector has force enough to raise 60 in the art to which it appertains to make and the check-valve G and pass back into the use the same, reference being had to the acmain pipe again, carrying with it the desired companying drawing, which forms a part of amount of air. It' the amount of air is too this speciiication, and which shows a longigi-eat, the valve B can be opened wider, so as tudinal vertical sectional view of a gasmain to permit more gas to pass through it; or the 65 embodying my invention. amount of air entering'the mouth F can be This invention relates to devices ,for mixing increased by means 0I' its valve. In case of atmospheric air with natural gas while itis beaccident to the injector, or if it is desired to ing conveyed from the gas-well to the conpass the gas through the main without going sumers, and it consists in the improved comthrough the injector at all, the check-valve (l 7o. bination ot' parts, as will be more fully deprevents it from escaping throughthe pipe D. scribed, and pointed'out in the claims. As the device acts automatically, it is only As natural gas comes from the wells itV is necessary to set the different valves to permit supercharged with carbon and other impurithe correct amount ot' airto be admitted, when ties, which escape into the room Awhere the it will take care of itself.

gas is being used unless they are consumed. Havingthusdescribedmyinvention, I claim To effect their consumption I introduce a een and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the tain quantity of atmospheric air into the main United Statesand thoroughly mingle it with the gas before l. The combination of a gasmain provided it reaches the burner, so that when it is igwith a regulating-valve, a pipe leading from so nited this air assists the surrounding atmossaid main upon eaeh side of said valve, with phere in burning up all the impurities and means, substantially as described, for autoextra carbon, and thus gives a greater amount matically mixing air with the gas which passes of heat, as well as leaving the air in theroom through them, as shown and described.

3 5 pure and healthy. A similar result isuseen in 2. The combination of a gas-main provided S5 a clearer, stronger light when the gas is used with a regulating-valve, a pipe leading from for illumination. said main upon each side ot' said valve, the

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A end of one of said pipes being provided with a represents a section of a gas-main supplied funnel-shaped mouth, and the end of the other 4o with a valve, B, for regulating the passage of pipe with a nozzle or injector which projects 9o the gas. Connected to the main upon each slightlyinto said mouth, anda check-valve seside of the valve B are two short pipes, O and cured upon the 'end' of one of said pipes within D, one of which, O, is provided at its end with said inain, as shown and described. an injector or nozzle, E, which projects slightly In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my into a funnel-shaped mouth, F, upon the end own I have hereunto affixed my signature in 95 of the other pipe, D. Secured upon the other presence of two witnesses.

end of the pipe D within the pipe A is a XVI-IILIAM SN EE. check-valve, G. If desired, the pipe C may XVitnesses: be provided with a regulating-valve, and the EMMA M. GILLETT,

5o main can be provided with Suitable escape` XV. S. BOYD. 

